Gluck and Myers have proposed a model of the hippocampal region in which the hippocampus:
A)compresses useful or predictive information.
B)expands redundant or unimportant information.
C)stores the stimulus-response associations that control motor outputs.
D)selects what information enters memory and how it is to be encoded.

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Gluck and Myers propose that the hippocampus acts as a gatekeeper for information entering long-term memory, selecting what information is important and how it should be encoded. This is supported by research demonstrating that damage to the hippocampus disrupts the encoding and retrieval of new memories. The other options do not accurately reflect the proposed role of the hippocampus in this model.

Gluck and Myers Have Proposed a Model of the Hippocampal